Adopted Son
Oct 01, 2022
3 minutes
by Dennis Denenberg
This month’s mystery hero breaks our rule about choosing American heroes. He never visited the United States during his lifetime. Yet he provided the funds to create a world-famous organization in the U.S. capital. Without John Quincy Adams’s leadership, however, it may never have been established.
Our hero’s parents were both British but were not married to each other. His mother gave birth to him in secret in 1765 in Paris, France. Not much
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